i hope that joe biden has an opportunity to talk about his ideas. >>guest: the land is we extended the life of medicare and cut $700 billion out of the waste and fraud from medicare and increase the number of services and benefits that seniors were getting. we are closing the prescription drug doughnut hole and making it more affordable for seniors stay on medicare. we will not privatize it. >> so you think medicare is in better shape than it was four years ago? >> the congressional budget office, the nonpartisan fiscal referee for these things say it is better off because we extended the life of medicare. >> i hope we have a vellet has debate between vice president biden and paul ryan. >>shepard: i hope it is good, because i am missing the yankees. congressman, nice to see you. when we got married. i had three kids. and she became the full time mother of three. it was soccer, and ballet, and cheerleading, and baseball. those years were crazy. so, as we go into this next phase, you know, a big part of it for us is that there isn't anything on the sc